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Swipe for photos from opening night!

If you missed the opening, there’s still plenty of chances to experience “Hold Each Other’s Hands.”

We have six exhibition events this season, all free and open to the public:

📅 Oct 3, 4 PM: Curator Walkthrough with Umi Hsu
📅 Oct 15, 7 PM: Spirit in the Dark Body Presentation
📅 Oct 27, 7 PM: Trans Mutual Aid Mixer and Clothing Swap
📅 Nov 4, 7 PM: Performance Lecture by Wesleigh Gates
📅 Nov 19, 7 PM: Lecture by Dee Farmer
📅 Dec 5, 3 PM: Transsister Radio: Mutual Aid Stories

“Hold Each Other’s Hands” runs from September 1 to December 6. See link in bio for more details.

Save this post and bring a friend. We’ll see you at OXY ARTS!

Photo credit Sarahi Apaez. by @oxyarts

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Announcing our fall group exhibition “Hold Each Other’s Hands: Trans Mutual Aid 1966-1996”, presented in partnership with One Institute @oneinstitutela, curated by Umi Hsu @wfumihsu.

🌟On view September 1 - December 5 🌟
Opening Reception + CIRCA Launch Party: Thurs, September 24, 7-9pm
at OXY ARTS 4757 York Blvd, LA CA 90042

Hold Each Other’s Hands chronicles a history of mutual aid led by transgender and gender expansive people. This exhibition, with work by six Los-Angeles-based artists, Leslie Foster, Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, Salvador de la Torre, Xixi Edelsbrunner, Wesleigh Gates, and Whisper (fka Sammie Veeler), explores how people with various relationships to gender nonconformity have worked together to develop inventive mutualistic models to create communities. With archival installations, contemporary artworks, featured speakers, and community programming, Hold Each Other’s Hands holds space for expansive thinking and public dialog around collectivity, co-existence, and care.

The title of the exhibition comes from Stonewall veteran Marsha P. Johnson when describing coalitional futures in liberation work. Archival installations in the exhibition illuminate snapshots in trans history from the 1960s to the 1990s, spanning from a multigenerational group of queens and unhoused kids in San Francisco’s Tenderloin in the late 1960s, to the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries in 1970s New York City; from the lesbian abolitionist advocacy for gender nonconforming prisoners in East Los Angeles, to multiple decades of grassroots publishing of medical and legal information resources shared among activist networks in the United States and beyond.

Visit our website to see the full list of exhibition events!

Image credit: Unknown photographer, Sylvia Rivera holding a banner at Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade 1983, LGBT Community Center National History Archive.

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Now online! Andrea Gyorodoy (@gyorodyody) reviews Roksana Pirouzmand (@roksanapirouzmand) at OXY ARTS (@oxyarts) and JOAN (@joanlosangeles).⁠
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Read via the link in our Story or find your FREE copy at 130+ galleries across L.A. and beyond! ⁠
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Photo: Gina Clyne by @oxyarts

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🖼️🎉 Tuesday, Oct. 6, 6PM OXY ARTS is celebrating the launch of “Why The Arts Matter: How Art Shapes Our Thinking, Identity, and Wellbeing” by Occidental College Cognitive Science professor Aleksandra Sherman and Philosophy professor Clair Morrissey.

The evening will feature a brief book talk, Q&A, and invitations to engage in meaningful ways with the current exhibition at OXY ARTS. Reception with light hors d’oeuvres and drinks.

See link in bio for more details! by @oxyarts

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We’re thrilled to see @oxyarts’s and @oneinstitutela’s current exhibition, “Hold Each Other’s Hands: Trans Mutual Aid 1966-1996,” curated by Umi Hsu (@wfumihsu) highlighted in the @latimes Essential Arts newsletter by arts editor Jessica Gelt!

“Hold Each Other’s Hands” is on view through Dec 5.
Gallery hours: Mon-Sat, 11am-4pm
4757 York Blvd LA CA 90042

Opening Reception: Thursday, 9/24, 7-9PM.

See our link in bio for the full newsletter and our list of upcoming events. ✨🔗 taken in Oxy Arts by @oxyarts

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🎉🌈✨SAVE THE DATE for the Hold Each Other’s Hands opening reception on Thursday, September 24 at 7 pm here at OXY ARTS!

We’re excited to join forces with @oneinstitutela to celebrate the exhibition and the launch of Circa Queer Histories Festival 2026.

The celebration will include a hosted bar and light bites.🍷🍢

Join us throughout the fall for related community programming:

Hold Each Other’s Hands Opening Reception
September 24, 6:00 PM

Curatorial Walkthrough with Umi Hsu
October 3, 4:00 PM

Spirit in the Dark Body: Black Queer Expressions of the Im/material
October 15, 7:00 PM

Mix and Swap: Trans Mutual Aid Mixer and Clothing Swap
October 27, 7:00 PM

Transgender Operations on Illegal Aliens That Are In Prison
November 4, 7:00 PM

Lecture by Dee Farmer
November 19, 7:00PM

TransSister Radio: Mutual Aid Stories on the Air
December 5, 3:00PM

See link in bio for more information!

Photographed by Ian Byers-Gamber. taken in Oxy Arts by @oxyarts

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🎥ACHO: CINEMA OF ARMENIAN GIRLHOOD — Screening and Discussion
⏳Thursday, September 10, 7:00 PM
📍OXY ARTS, 4757 York Blvd

Join 2026 Media Arts and Culture @occidental_mac Artist-in-Residence Anahid Yahjian @medullacreative for an evening of contemporary media works made by and/or about transnational Armenian women, curated around the embodied stages of girlhood and womanhood.

“Acho” was the childhood nickname of Yahjian’s grandmother, short for “աղջիկ” (agh-cheeg - “girl”). Moving through birth, childhood, puberty, adolescence, virginity, motherhood, post-menopause, and death, the program interprets these stages literally, figuratively,and chronologically, including work engaging trans girlhood and womanhood.

A discussion featuring invited filmmakers will follow the screening.

🎬Screening slate:

Girl from Moush - Gariné Torossian
Անտունի | Homeless - Alik Barsoumian @aliktamar
Նախշուն | Marvelous - Lusine Zakaryan lucie_neee
*Այդ Ես Չեմ (Ալավերդի) | Это не я (Алаверди)| I’m Going to Change My Name (Alaverdi) - Maria Saakyan @annikofilms
*Symptom - Kamee Abrahamian @29cents
*Red Apples - George Sikharulidze, Ophelia Harutyunyan @armofeli
*Գյուղը որ Կանգնի | It Takes A Village - Ophelia Harutyunyan
Ընտանեկան Հարաման | Domestic Demon - Anahid Yahjian @medullacreative
*Tonratun, or The History of Armenia as Told by Women - Inna Mkhitaryan @innamkhitaryan
*Աշխարհ | World - Christine Haroutounian @mankazar.film
Գիշերային Ծիածան | Nocturnal Rainbow - Armen (Ohanyan) of Armenia
Binderburn - Atlas Acopian @atlasacopian

*playing in excerpted form

🎟️Free and open to the public. No RSVP required. Total run time of the films is approximately 75 minutes.

Note: some of the work presented may not be suitable for minors.

📷Still image from Անտունի | Homeless by Alik Barsoumian

Presented by OXY ARTS and the Media Arts & Culture Department. Co-sponsored by the Armenian Students Association @oxy_asa and the Middle Eastern and North African Students Association @menasa.oxy.

Swipe to meet Anahid's grandmother, Iskuhi (Tateosian) Yahjian, Bulgaria. by @oxyarts

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It may not feel like it yet, but fall at OXY ARTS is just around the corner!🍂✨

Welcome Class of 2030 and our wider community to this season at OXY ARTS! Our exhibition, Hold Each Other’s Hands: Trans Mutual Aid 1966-1996, opens tomorrow. Come visit us Mon-Sat, 11am-4pm!

➡️ SAVE THE DATE for the exhibition reception and Circa Queer Histories Festival Launch Party on Thursday, September 24 at 7 pm… and follow us here for all the updates on upcoming programming and events.   The exhibition is co-presented with the @oneinstitutela and curated by visiting professor of practice Umi Hsu.
 The exhibition runs from September 1 to December 6. See link in bio for more details. taken in Oxy Arts by @oxyarts

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The National Museum of the Aftermath is open for just a few more days - stop by before August 8th to experience Cauleen Smith’s speculative museum.

The National Museum of the Aftermath is a space to gather and strategize. It is a container, not a space for observation. While you’re here you can pick up a free printed broadsheet with an interview between Cauleen Smith and Dr. Regina Freer, browse a collection of selected texts in the museum’s reading room, and respond to the prompt the National Museum of the Aftermath poses - “In the wake of the uncountable endings our history contains, how do we build resistant relationships to the permanence of racism?”

Open hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm through August 8th

@cauleen_smith @the.national.museum @jonrubinstudio @kinnanesmith @oxyarts by @oxyarts

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2 months ago

Cauleen Smith on the naming of the National Museum of the Aftermath.

From June 8 - August 8, The National Museum of the Aftermath is operating within @oxyarts. This speculative museum is conceived and titled by Cauleen Smith @cauleen_smith. The Museum will periodically operate as a sound stage for the artist, who will film three scenes hovering between the real and speculative. Each stages the internal negotiations of collective struggle - the gatherings, disagreements, and nuances of people trying to build something together within and alongside what remains.

Stop by Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm, 4757 York Blvd.

Video Footage: Brian Hashimoto @hashimoto_images

@cauleen_smith @kinnanesmith @jonrubinstudio @oxyarts by @oxyarts

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Derrick Bell’s “Faces in the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racisim” is an important foundational prompt for the National Museum of the Aftermath. In response, Cauleen Smith poses the question - “In the wake of the uncountable endings our history contains, how do we build resistant relationships to the permanence of racism?”

There are just over two weeks left to visit the National Museum of the Aftermath, where you can read Derrick Bell’s work along with other selected texts that inform this project in our reading room. Stop by before August 8th, Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 4pm.

Video Footage: Brian Hashimoto @hashimoto_images

@cauleen_smith @kinnanesmith @jonrubinstudio @oxyarts by @oxyarts

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Free printed broadsheets of Cauleen Smith’s @cauleen_smith NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AFTERMATH are now available for you to pick up in person at the museum! Stop by Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm or at any of our evening events to pick up a copy. Please note the museum will be closed today and Friday 17th for filming.

The front side displays the name of the museum, and the back features a conversation between Cauleen Smith and Dr. Regina Freer, community organizer and Professor of Politics at Occidental College. This conversation took place in response to Cauleen’s naming, explores the work of Derrick Bell, considers the ramifications of Afro-pessimism, and discusses the current state and future of organizing.

Regina Freer’s research and teaching interests include race and politics, demographic change, urban politics, and the intersection of all three in Los Angeles. Her current research project examines the material consequences and contradictions in how policy-makers and community members respond to Black population decline accompanied by spatial and cultural erasure in several U.S. cities. She is also working on a political biography of Charlotta Bass, an L.A.-based African American newspaper editor and activist who ran for vice president of the United States in 1952.

Design by @lookyheresigns by @oxyarts

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